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17462 results for: Keyword - Mr Vernon</i>-much Applause (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). Benefit for Vernon. Paid $<span class=
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11026
07 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 1st piece [1st time; MF 2. Larpent MS 1210; not published]: Written by Charles? Dibdin, Founded on his Popular Novel under that Title, and enriched with a Selection of his most recent and favourite Songs. Do conclude with a new Finale by Dibdin. The Overture by Dibdin. "[It is a] wretched inanity; without interest, without humour, without character, original only in its dullness and unmatchable absurdity" (Monthly Mirror, May 1798, p. 306). 2nd piece: Compressed into Three Acts. 3rd piece: By permission of the Proprietor of the Theatre Royal Hay-Market. Morning Herald, 18 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 65, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #511 13s. 6d. (251.7.6; 68.7.0; 1.13.0; tickets: 190.6.0) (charge: #212 19s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hannah Hewit Or The Female Crusoe

Afterpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Song: End I 1st piece: The Sailor's Consolation- made into a Song and Chorus

11027
09 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Kelly. Ballet: By permission of the Proprietor of the Opera House. Composed by Gallet. With appropriate Dresses, Scenery, and Decorations. Times, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Kelly, No. 9, New Lisle-street, Leicester-fields. Receipts: #681 4s. (370.8.0; 45.1.6; 3.12.0; tickets: 262.2.6) (charge: #237 3s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Ballet: End II: the Grand Anacreontic Ballet, Bacchus et Ariadne. Bacchus-Laborie; Ariadne-Mme Lombard Laborie; Theseus-St. Pierre; Phedra-Miss D'Egville; Silenus-Blake; Cupid-Master Menage; Hymen-Miss Denys; Chief Persons of the Train of Bacchus representing Divinities of Olympus-Didelot, Mme Hilligsberg, Miss J. Hilligsberg; Deities of the Olympus, with a Grand Procession of Bacchanals, Bacchants, Nymphs, Satyrs, Fauns-The whole Corps de Ballet from the Opera House; the celebrated Pas de Quatre from Panurge-Didelot, Laborie, Mme Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg

11028
10 May 1798 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mme Hilligsberg. Tickets to be had of Mme Hilligsberg, No. 43, Gerrard-street, Soho. 2nd ballet: Music by J. Mazzinghi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Elfrida

Dance: End I: Le Triomphe de Themis, as17971226; Pas Russe-Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg; End Opera: a new Pastoral Ballet in 4 acts, composed by S. Gallet, Elisa; ou, Le Triomphe de la Nature-Laborie, Mme Hilligsberg, Didelot, Mme Rose, Miss Hilligsberg, Mme Laborie, Gourlier, Master Laborie

11029
11 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Pope. [Mrs Jordan's 1st appearance as Lady Bell was at this theatre, 21 Apr. 1789.] 3rd piece: To conclude with a Prospect of the Infernal Regions, and a Rain of Fire. Times, 4 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Pope, No. 63, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Receipts: #318 11s. 6d. (78.0.6; 84.18.0; 4.12.6; tickets: 151.0.6) (charge: #216 8s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast
Role: A Salt Eel for Mynheer Actor: Bannister, by permission of Dibdin.

Afterpiece Title: Don Juan or The Libertine Destroyed

Dance: In 3rd piece: Pas Seul, incidental to the piece-Sga Bossi DelCaro

11030
12 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Murray. 1st piece: By Permission of the Author [Walsh Porter], and the Manager of the Theatre Royal Bath [William Wyatt Dimond]. [This was 1st acted at Bath, 27 Feb. 1798. It refers to the nation-wide attempt, being made at this time, to raise funds by voluntary contribution for the defense of the country. And see 9 Feb. Larpent MS 1197; not published. Miss Murray's 1st appearance on the stage was at Bristol, 1 July 1793.] Times, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Murray, No. 77, Long Acre. Receipts: #198 17s. (102.6.0; 4.1.6; tickets: 92.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Voluntary Contributions

Afterpiece Title: Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: Florizel and Perdita or The Sheep Shearing

Song: End 1st piece: Black Ey'd Susan-; End 2nd piece: Admiral Benbow-Incledon

11031
15 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Suett. Morning Herald, 5 May: Tickets to be had of Suett, No. 18, Clement's Inn. Receipts: #516 16s. 6d. (240.12.0; 63.9.6; 2.8.6; tickets: 210.6.6) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Cast
Role: Baron Steinfort Actor: Palmer
Related Works
Related Work: The Successful Strangers Author(s): William Mountfort

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast
Role: A Salt Eel for Mynheer Actor: Bannister, by permission of Dibdin.

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

11032
16 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mlle Parisot. Times, 14 May: Tickets to be had of Mlle Parisot, No. 9, Haymarket. Receipts: #409 11s. (198.3.6; 73.5.6; 1.5.6; tickets: 136.16.6) (charge: #245 2s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Dance: Two Pas Seulsincidental to the Ballet-Mlle Favre Guiardele (for that night only); In afterpiece: a new Pas Seul-Mlle Parisot

Ballet: End II: a New Ballet (for that night only), Kitty and Jemmy. Jemmy-Mlle Parisot; Kitty-Sga Bossi DelCaro; the Other Characters-Fialon (for that night only), Master Menage, Miss Menage, Roffey, Whitmell, Wells, Male, Garman, W. Banks, Ms Brooker, Ms Daniels, Ms Brigg, Ms Haskey, Ms Illingham, Ms Byrne, Ms Willis, Ms Vining

Performance Comment: Jemmy-Mlle Parisot; Kitty-Sga Bossi DelCaro; the Other Characters-Fialon (for that night only), Master Menage, Miss Menage, Roffey, Whitmell, Wells, Male, Garman, W. Banks, Ms Brooker, Ms Daniels, Ms Brigg, Ms Haskey, Ms Illingham, Ms Byrne, Ms Willis, Ms Vining.

11033
21 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Powell. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, author unknown. MS not in Larpent MS; not published]: Founded on a recent fortunate Event [the escape of Sir William Sidney Smith from The Temple, Paris, on 24 Apr. 1798 (European Magazine, June 1798, p. 395)]. With appropriate Scenery, and Machinery. [3rd piece in place of The Children in the Wood, advertised on playbill of 19 May.] Times, 15 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Powell, No. 43, Craven-street, Strand. Receipts: #548 17s. (233.4.6; 61.4.6; 0.17.0; tickets: 253.11.0) (charge: #214 12s. 1d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Performance Comment: As17980409, but added; Mrs Powell [the only time her name is in the playbill of this play (and see17971214)]; Wentworth_; Gibbon_; Original Epilogue-Mrs Jordan; (for that night only) a new Additional Dialogue[, written by M. G. Lewis, Esq., Author of the Play,-Mrs Jordan, Mrs Powell.

Afterpiece Title: The Escape

Performance Comment: Characters-Palmer, Caulfield, Trueman, Maddocks, Hollingsworth, Roffey, Male; Vocal Parts-Sedgwick, Dignum; Principal Dancer-Sga Bossi DelCaro. [Cast not known, except for Sir Sidney Smith-Palmer (Monthly Mirror, June 1798, p. 368.]
Cast
Role: except for Sir Sidney Smith Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

11034
22 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Whitfield. Times, 10 May: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 10, Clifford's Inn. Receipts: #343 6s. 6d. (60.6.0; 3.16.0; tickets: 279.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: Hooly and Fairly

Cast
Role: Maritornes Actor: Mrs Henley. Commencing with the Representation of the Ruins of a Peruvian Temple, where an injured Inca and his Son had taken refuge from the malice of their Persecutors-the Inca in his retirement, making Magic his study, persuades his Son, from a happy presage, to attempt the re-obtainment of his right, by procuring the hand of his Oppressor's Daughter, who is a Spanish Grandee, and has betrothed her to the Knight Errant of La Mancha Don Quixotte-to prevent their union, he transforms his Son to +Harlequin, the Magic Arm appearing to guard him in the hour of Peril-they take leave, and he commences his career of adventure, by darting through the ruined Columns of the Temple, and re-appears near the Grandee's House in Grenada, where an interview takes place with the object of his choice, who elopes with him, and after experiencing a variety of Adventures in the Spanish Territories, seeking shelter in The Alhambrav, a Moorish Palace of great Antiquity, pursued by Don Quixotte, Sancho, the Grandee and Scaramouchillo, at length arrive in Old England
Role: where an injured Inca and his Son had taken refuge Actor: the Inca in his retirement, making Magic his study, persuades his Son, from a happy presage, to attempt the re-obtainment of his right, by procuring the hand of his Oppressor's Daughter, who is a Spanish Grandee, and has betrothed her to the Knight Errant of La Mancha Don Quixotte-to prevent their union, he transforms his Son to +Harlequin, the Magic Arm appearing to guard him in the hour of Peril-they take leave, and he commences his career of adventure, by darting through the ruined Columns of the Temple, and re-appears near the Grandee's House in Grenada, where an interview takes place with the object of his choice, who elopes with him, and after experiencing a variety of Adventures in the Spanish Territories, seeking shelter in The Alhambrav, a Moorish Palace of great Antiquity, pursued by Don Quixotte, Sancho, the Grandee and Scaramouchillo, at length arrive in Old England
Role: to attempt the re Actor: obtainment of his right, by procuring the hand of his Oppressor's Daughter, who is a Spanish Grandee, and has betrothed her to the Knight Errant of La Mancha Don Quixotte-to prevent their union, he transforms his Son to +Harlequin, the Magic Arm appearing to guard him in the hour of Peril-they take leave, and he commences his career of adventure, by darting through the ruined Columns of the Temple, and re-appears near the Grandee's House in Grenada, where an interview takes place with the object of his choice, who elopes with him, and after experiencing a variety of Adventures in the Spanish Territories, seeking shelter in The Alhambrav, a Moorish Palace of great Antiquity, pursued by Don Quixotte, Sancho, the Grandee and Scaramouchillo, at length arrive in Old England
Role: and has betrothed her to the Knight Errant of La M Actor: to prevent their union, he transforms his Son to +Harlequin, the Magic Arm appearing to guard him in the hour of Peril-they take leave, and he commences his career of adventure, by darting through the ruined Columns of the Temple, and re-appears near the Grandee's House in Grenada, where an interview takes place with the object of his choice, who elopes with him, and after experiencing a variety of Adventures in the Spanish Territories, seeking shelter in The Alhambrav, a Moorish Palace of great Antiquity, pursued by Don Quixotte, Sancho, the Grandee and Scaramouchillo, at length arrive in Old England
Role: warned from the Grotto of the Goddess Pleasure by Actor: they take shelter in one of the +East India Company's Warehouses, which on their being closely pursued, is transform'd into a Picturesque Chinese Apartment. In this country he is deprived, by an adverse Magician, of his Columbine

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

Dance: In 2nd piece: Highland Reel, as17980428

Song: End III 1st piece: Black Ey'd Susan-Incledon

11035
23 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore and Sedgwick. Times, 22 May: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, Judd Place West, Sommer's Town; of Sedgwick, No. 18, Clement's Inn. Receipts: #518 17s. (88.2.0; 67.11.0; 1.19.6; tickets: 361.4.6) (charge: #213 12s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Anacreontic Society Revived i

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performance Comment: Major Benbow-Suett; Justice Benbow-Packer; Captain Greville-Kelly; Captain Wilson-Sedgwick; Tipple (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; Eliza-Miss Leak.

11036
24 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Leak. Afterpiece: With a Sea Fight. Times, 17 May: Tickets to be had of Miss Leak, Upper Mews Gate, Castle-street, Leicester-fields. Receipts: #500 6s. 6d. (104.10.0; 74.7.6; 3.4.6; tickets: 318.4.6) (charge: #220 14s. 7d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed

Performance Comment: Dangle-R. Palmer; Sneer-Palmer; Sir Fretful Plagiary-Dowton; Signor Ritornello-Maddocks; Interpreter-Wewitzer; Puff-King; Mrs Dangle-Miss Tidswell; Italian Girls-Miss Leak, Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp; Tragedians: Lord Burleigh-Sparks; Governor of Tilbury Fort-Hollingsworth; Earl of Leicester-Trueman; Sir Walter Raleigh-Russell; Sir Christopher Hatton-Wathen; Beef@eater-Caulfield; Don Ferolo Whiskerandos-Bannister Jun.; Tilburina-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Governor of Tilbury Fort Actor: Hollingsworth

Dance: In II: Masquerade-; with Dancing-Mlle Parisot, Sga Bossi DelCaro

Song: In Masquerade: Sigh no more Ladies (composed by Stevens)-Sedgwick, Dignum, Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp; End IV: Little Taffline-Mrs Bland; In course of Evening: Ally Croaker, Little Bess the Ballad Singer (composed by Dr Arnold)-Miss Leak

11037
24 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Clendining. 1st piece: Not acted these 2 years. 2nd piece: In one Act. Morning Herald, 22 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Clendining, No. 22, Southampton-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #127 5s. (31.3.6; 6.2.6; tickets: 89.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fontainbleau

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor

Music: End 1st piece: the British March- his Royal Highnessthe Duke of York's Band

11038
28 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Wild, prompter. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, acted on 30 May as The Sailor's Carousal]. 3rd piece: The Scenery and Machinery by Richards, Hodgins, Walmsley, Phillips, Lupino, and assistants. Times, 25 May: Tickets to be had of Wild, No. 28, Drury-lane. Receipts: #288 18s. (123.9.6; 11.9.6; tickets: 153.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Afterpiece Title: Starboard Watch

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Faustus or The Devil will have his Own

Song: In course: The High Mettled Racer (composed by Dibdin)-Incledon; Patents all the Rage-Munden; The Beggar, as17980525; Duetto-Mrs Martyr, Mrs Mountain; The Wind blew fresh and fair-Townsend

Music: In course of Evening: solo on the Union Pipes-Murphy; accompanied on the Harp-Weippert

Entertainment: Vaudeville.In 3rd piece: [By Permission of the Proprietors of the Royal Circus [Charles Dibdin and Charles Hughes] [the celebrated Smith will ge thro' his wonderful Performances on the Slack Rope-Smith

Performance Comment: In 3rd piece: [By Permission of the Proprietors of the Royal Circus [Charles Dibdin and Charles Hughes] [the celebrated Smith will ge thro' his wonderful Performances on the Slack Rope-Smith.

11039
29 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wewitzer. Account-Book: Wewitzer allowed to issue tickets on this [night] paying for all that comes in over #105. Receipts: #269 15s. (94.5.0; 49.16.6; 1.15.6; tickets: 123.18.0) (charge: none)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

11040
30 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Miss DeCamp. 1st piece: Never [previously] acted here. Times, 11 May: Tickets to be had of Miss DeCamp, No. 14, Tottenham-court-road. Receipts: #435 2s. 6d. (153.16.6; 57.2.0; 1.16.0; tickets: 222.8.0) (charge: #232 15s. 2d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Monk

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

11041
30 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Hull, Mrs Litchfield & Waddy. 1st piece [1st time; C 5, by Thomas Hull. Larpent MS 1215; not published]: Altered from [The Bashful Lover, by] Massinger. [In it the playbill assigns Hortensio to Pope, but he was ill, and in his "stead Johnston read the part of Hortensio" (European Magazine, June 1798, p. 396). Prologue by John Taylor Poems (I, 60).] Morning Herald, 29 May: Tickets to be had of Hull, Duke's Court, Dean's-yard, Westminster; of Mrs Litchfield, James-street, Covent-Garden; of Waddy, No. 214, opposite Southampton-street, High Holborn. Receipts: #261 2s. 6d. (53.9.6; 4.16.6; tickets: 202.16.6; of which Hull took #72 7s.; Mrs Litchfield #60 17s., Waddy #69 12s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Disinterested Love

Afterpiece Title: Starboard Watch

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: With pride we steer'd for England's Coast Actor: Townsend.

Entertainment: Monologue.Preceding 1st piece: a new Occasional Prologue-Holman

11042
31 May 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Fosbrook, box book and house keeper. Receipts: #484 17s. (85.9; 65.6; 3.0; tickets: 331.2) (charge: #218 3s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Dance: End: Dance, Pas Seul-Mlle Parisot; the favourite Hornpipe-Sga Bossi DelCaro

11043
01 June 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Brandon, box-book and housekeeper. Receipts: #465 3s. 6d. (84.18.6; 12.0.0; tickets: 368.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Faustus

Song: In I: the original Duet-Johnstone, Mrs Pope; In course of Evening: Black Ey'd Susan, Sally in our Alley, Old Towler-Incledon; The Beggar, as17980525; Duetto, as17980528

11044
02 June 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Simpson, Powel, Rees & Mrs Henley. 3rd piece [1st time; P 1]: Selected from The Rape of Proserpine, Lord Mayor's Day, Harlequin's Museum, Harlequin Skeleton, Harlequin Sorcerer, Aladin, &c. In the course of the Compilation will be introduced: The Birth and Emancipation of Harlequin from the Egg-shell-the Dying Scene-the Skeleton-His Renovation-the celebrated Gladiator Scene, &c. In particular, among many surprising Escapes, the Jump through the Tea-chest; Flight from one Balcony to the other; a Leap over twelve Soldiers with fixed Bayonets; the Flight back and Jump through a Tamborine-and (for that night only) Simpson will run perpendicular up the Wall of a House, 30 Feet High. To conclude with a View of the Grotto of Magic. There are some imitations which almost identify the originals, but [Rees's as Dromio] was a vile caricature, which would never have been recognized but for the specification in the play bills" (Monthly Mirror, June 1798, p. 371). Receipts: #269 19s. 6d. (48.19.0; 20.17.6; tickets: 200.3.0, of which Simpson took #72 5s. 6d., Powel #27 10s. 6d., Rees #36 11s., Mrs Henley #61 16s., leaving #2 to be accounted for)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Comedy Of Errors

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Afterpiece Title: The Witches Revels or The Birth of Harlequin

Song: In III 1st piece: song in character-Mrs Henley; Old Towler-Incledon

Entertainment: Vaudeville.As17980528; In 2nd piece: new Imitations-Rees

11045
04 June 1798 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Farley, Sloper & Mrs Watts. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]: Consisting of Song, Catch, Glee, and Dance. With appropriate Scenery analogous to the different subjects. [3rd piece in place of Harlequin and Faustus, advertised on playbill of 2 June.] Receipts: #292 6s. 6d. (51.10.0; 5.1.0; tickets: 235.15.6, of which Farley took #55 9s. 6d.; Sloper #117 13s.; Mrs Watts #62 13s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wild Oats

Afterpiece Title: Unanimity or War Love and Loyalty

Afterpiece Title: Raymond and Agnes

Cast
Role: Agnes Actor: Mrs Mountain. For identical synopsis of scenes see17970316797.

Dance: 3rd piece to conclude with: Dance of Savoyards, as17980430; Ascension of the Bleeding Nun-

11046
05 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister. 3rd piece [1st time: INT 1. Larpent MS 1218; not published]: A Sequel [to Sylvester Daggerwood], written by John? O'Keeffe. Times, 24 May: Tickets to be had of Bannister, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Haymarket. Receipts: #318 17s. (86.6.0; 44.4.6; 2.0.6; tickets: 186.6.0, of which Bannister to pay for half over #100) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast
Role: A Salt Eel for Mynheer Actor: Bannister, by permission of Dibdin.

Afterpiece Title: The Eleventh of June or The Daggerwoods at Dunstable

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Song: 1st piece: Vocal Parts, as17980224, but Ms _Leak

11047
07 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Wathen. [Longley is identified in Monthly Mirror, June 1798, p. 369. For his 1st appearance see 25 Nov. 1797.] Times, 30 May: Tickets to be had of Wathen, No. 2, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #294 7s. (55.13.6; 44.13.6; 0.9.0; tickets: 193.11.0, of which Wathen to pay for one half brought in over #100)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Cast
Role: A Salt Eel for Mynheer Actor: Bannister, by permission of Dibdin.

Afterpiece Title: The Eleventh of June

Cast
Role: A Salt Eel for Mynheer Actor: Bannister, by permission of Dibdin.

Afterpiece Title: Blue Beard

Cast
Role: A Salt Eel for Mynheer Actor: Bannister, by permission of Dibdin.

11048
08 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Dignum. Times, 5 June: Tickets to be had of Dignum, No. 23, New North-street, Red Lion-square. Receipts: #635 16s. 6d. (46.14.0; 55.0.0; 1.14.0; tickets: 532.8.6) (charge: #220 9s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Governor of Tilbury Fort Actor: Hollingsworth

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Song: End II 1st piece: I never lov'd any dear Mary but you-Dignum (composed by Hook); End 1st piece: The Fight off Camperdown-Dignum; End I 2nd piece: The Town and Country-Dignum (composed [i.e. words] by Capt. Morris); End 2nd piece: an Answer to the above, Country and Town-Dignum

11049
08 June 1798 @ Wheatley's Riding School, Greenwich (location unknown)

Event Comment: Benefit for Twaits, Ives, Hallam, Brown & Mrs Brooks. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. Back Seats 6d. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00. The above Performers, with the utmost Deference and Respect, inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Greenwich, they have selected those Entertainments which they flatter themselves will meet their Approbation; being compelled to answer their Engagements in another Town, they jointly solicit their Patronage on this occasion, the honour of which will ever be remembered with the most lively effusions of gratitude

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas Or The Noble Shepherd

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood or A Trial for a London Engagement

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Song: Between acts: Twaits, Master Seabrook

11050
14 June 1798 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Shade, Cameron, Wood, Wilson, Edwards, Wooldridge, Panchaud, Dangerfield, Irish, Cole, Hough, W. Nix, S. Nix [box-keepers]. Receipts: #526 10s. 6d. (18.1.0; 22.2.6; 0.4.0; tickets: 486.3.0) (charge: #217 14s. 5d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Beaufort Actor: Trueman